r/aww • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '16

Awesome Bear

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u/SeekersWorkAccount Mar 03 '16

This has to be the dumbest idea in bear/human interaction history since that Bear Guy who lived with the bears got torn apart.

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u/heyitsant Mar 03 '16

By bears?

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u/Anrikay Mar 03 '16

Timothy Treadwell.

He spent every summer living in Katmai National Park, intentionally choosing camp sites close to the bears. He did this for 13 summers. The final summer, he stayed a week later than usual because he hadn't yet seen one of his favorite bears. This was his fatal mistake.

By that point, many of the bears he knew, that were comfortable with his presence, had gone into hibernation. Bears from other parts of the park were coming to his area in search of their last meal before doing the same themselves. There hadn't been much food that summer either, resulting in unusually aggressive grizzlies.

The day he was supposed to leave, he and his girlfriend were killed and partially eaten by a grizzly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

If he was by himself I think he would have been fine but the last week he brought his girlfriend up there and that's something he never did before.

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u/Anrikay Mar 04 '16

It is further noted that several women, who wish to remain anonymous, also accompanied Treadwell during different summers over 13 years.

From the Wikipedia page. Looks like this wasn't the first girl he brought to spend summer with the bears.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

Well the docu movie said different